Trends Editor

Dow Jones; New York (NY); On-site; USD 81,000 - 91,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

Dental

401(k)

Subsidized restaurant

Fitness center

Job summary

The U.S. Sun in New York is seeking a Trends Editor to lead a newsroom team and produce high-quality, multi-platform content. You will identify national stories, craft punchy headlines, and manage publication across lifestyle, tech, health, and general news.

You’ll develop SEO-focused strategies, monitor analytics, and ensure editorial standards in a fast-moving environment, collaborating with video and social teams to maximize reach.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of digital journalism experience and a background managing a team of journalists
• Skilled writer able to craft concise, engaging stories
• Tech-savvy with analytics tools, SEO, social media strategies
• Legal and ethical standards awareness for newsroom content

Responsibilities

• Lead a team to produce multi-platform content.
• Identify and break national stories involving major retailers, legislation, and policy.
• Edit, assign, and publish stories across topics including news, health, lifestyle, motors, tech, and travel.
• Develop SEO and content strategies to increase readership and search visibility.
• Monitor analytics and audience performance to guide editorial decisions.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to maximize reach and engagement

Skills

Editorial leadership

Digital journalism

Compelling storytelling

SEO & analytics

Interviews (on-camera)

Fast-paced decision-making

Tools

Google Analytics

SEO tools

Trends analytics

Job description

Job Description:

Trends Editor - The U.S. Sun Are you a driven and dynamic Editor looking to make an impact at one of the fastest-growing digital news platforms? The U.S. Sun is looking for an experienced Trends Editor to join our team in New York.

Why Join Us?

Part of News Corp, The U.S. Sun has quickly become a dominant force in digital journalism, delivering exclusive content on news, entertainment, lifestyle, and more. Since our US launch in 2020, we've exceeded traffic and revenue goals, establishing ourselves as the fastest-growing news site in the US.

What’s the Role?

As Trends Editor you will lead a team to produce high-quality multi-platform content that resonates with our audience. You will collaborate with other department heads to maximize output and gather insights. You will identify and break national stories involving major retailers, legislation, policy, and everyday issues affecting Americans. You will assign, edit, and publish stories covering a variety of topics including trending news, health, lifestyle, motors, tech, and travel. You will develop SEO and search-driven content strategies to increase readership and search visibility, create trend-focused coverage and optimized headlines. You will monitor analytics, Google Trends, Parsley, and audience performance to guide editorial decisions while ensuring accuracy, speed and editorial standards in a high-volume breaking news environment.

What You’ll Do:

• Pulse of trending news: The Trends Editor is “in-the-know” on the latest events and is able to turn that into high-quality stories quickly and accurately across various verticals such as lifestyle, motors, tech, and general news of the day.
• Story Development: You are skilled at identifying topics which people want to click on, read, and talk about, and have a knack for crafting a punchy headline. You are experienced at conducting on-camera interviews when needed.
• Editorial Quality: You will oversee coverage that will help readers understand the trending stories of the day. You’ll work closely with reporters to develop same-day stories, as well as original, exclusive reports, by ensuring all content produced by your team meets legal and ethical standards and upholds the editorial quality of The U.S. Sun.
• Work Across Teams: You’ll work closely with cross-functional teams, from video to social media, ensuring maximum audience reach and engagement.
• Content Optimization: Edit copy to ensure it’s compelling and true to The U.S. Sun’s voice.
• Maximize Traffic: Use your understanding of analytics to spot trending stories that resonate with our audience.

Who You Are:

• Experienced Journalist: At least 3-5 years of digital journalism experience and a background managing a team of journalists.
• Skilled writer: You are a compelling storyteller and can write concisely and engagingly, ensuring every story captures the reader’s attention.
• Tech-savvy: Experience with analytics tools, SEO, social media, and strategies for growing a digital audience.
• Legal and Compliance-Aware: Comfortable ensuring all content meets legal and ethical standards.
• Fast-Paced Thinker: Ability to thrive under pressure, making quick decisions, and adapting in a fast-moving newsroom.

What’s in It for You:

• Salary: Competitive Salary based on experience with excellent benefits, including healthcare, dental, and 401K.
• Career Growth: Take on a leading role in a dynamic newsroom with exciting career opportunities.
• Prime Location: Work from our Midtown Manhattan office with access to a subsidized restaurant and fitness center.
• Base Pay Range: 81000 - 91000

We’re committed to offering competitive and flexible compensation to attract top talent. This pay range reflects our good faith estimate for the role and may vary based on a candidate’s experience, skills, location, and other relevant factors. For bonus-eligible roles, targets are determined based on multiple considerations, including market benchmarks and individual contributions. For benefits-eligible roles, we offer a comprehensive and competitive benefits package covering health, retirement, wellbeing, and more, along with optional benefits to meet the diverse needs of our employees.

Shifts & Schedule:

• Full-time, based in our Midtown Manhattan office
• Regular office hours with occasional evening and weekend shifts

We value diversity and are an equal-opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Equal Opportunity Employer All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.

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The U.S. Sun is the American digital edition of the famous British newspaper, offering the best in news, entertainment, lifestyle, sports, travel, and consumer reporting. Launched in 2020, it delivers the information all working Americans want to know to get by in their daily lives. By 2021, The U.S. Sun became the fastest-growing news website in the US and currently boasts dozens of employees with offices in New York City and across the country.The U.S. Sun adheres to the very highest standards of accuracy in its reporting and continues to invest in original journalism, including online series and video shows.The Sun was launched in 1969 with the slogan “forward with the people,” because that is what we believe in. The Sun cares about quality of life, the kind of world we live in, and about people.Under The Sun brand, The U.S. Sun leads as an instigator, an entertainer, a cultural reference point. We stand for ordinary people looking to build better lives for themselves and their families, regardless of where they grow up or which school they went to. Most importantly, The U.S. Sun provides a daily relationship with readers by having its finger on the pulse of the latest news working people can use to make informed choices about their future.

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